Duke Divinity School's 93rd Baccalaureate

Saturday, May 11, 2019 - 6:30pm

Speaker(s):

Dr. Charles Campbell, Professor of Homiletics at Duke Divinity School

Duke Divinity School will celebrate its 93rd Baccalaureate Service with Charles Campbell, Ph.D., D.Min., professor of homiletics at the school, preaching. The service will be held in Duke Chapel. Divinity School Dean L. Gregory Jones selected Campbell to preach at this 90-minute service of worship after graduating students made nominations. The event, which includes a service of investiture in which students receive their academic hoods, is open to the public. It will be webcast live on the Duke Chapel website at https://chapel.duke.edu/dukestream-video-fallback. Persons holding priority seating tickets will be seated beginning at 5:30 p.m., followed by general seating at 6:10 p.m. When the chapel is filled to capacity, staff will direct guests to the overflow seating in Room 0016 of the Westbrook Building at the Divinity School, where they can view a live video stream of the service. Duke Divinity graduating students should meet before Baccalaureate in Goodson Chapel at 5 p.m. to check-in and prepare for the service. A reception will be held immediately after the service in the Divinity Café for all graduates, their families, faculty, and staff.

Duke Chapel

Message from the Department:

The faculty of the Department of Religious Studies laments and strongly objects to the racist comments and symbols that have appeared on campus at Duke, repugnant expressions of White supremacy groups and others expressing racial and religious hatred that have no place whatsoever in our community or anywhere else. We sincerely hope that students, staff and faculty across the university will publicly convey their staunch rejection of such hatred in order to champion the values of tolerance and equality that are the true basis of our intellectual and ethical community.